Gail wrote:

>> I guess I just assumed that if something doesn't come with any 
>> instructions, it's supposed to be "obvious" enough that you don't need 
>> them.
> 
> No. You assume that it should be obvious.
> Most other people I know (myself included) would go looking for some 
> assistance (whether it be asking someone or searching online)

Well, the encoder _did_ work. It just produced very bad quality 
pictures. I assumed it was just a naff codec, and continued my 
explorations elsewhere. (At the time I'd never heard of it before, so I 
figured that was because it's not very good.)

I do recall spending 4 days trying to get a codec called "cinepak" to 
work well - and when I mentioned it online, somebody said "OMG, do you 
have *any idea* how ancient that thing is? Get rid of it!" I guess I 
assumed that DivX must be similar, so I didn't spent too many hours 
trying to fix it.

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